How to create exact line spacing in Storyline

Hi

Yes I noticed that too. I agree that more customisable Line Spacing options would be good ...  welcome as a feature request for the next version. It can just be helpful at times for things like text in thought bubbles or shapes or tables or the balance of text in a space. For what I wanted at the time I just created what I needed in Powerpoint and inserted it as a graphic. But that wouldn't always suit.

For spacing between paragraphs I do this workaround.  Have a blank line between paragraphs and then change the font size for that blank line to something smaller.  Even though the font size drop-down only goes down to 8 point, you can enter a smaller value.  Pretty quick and easy. 

You probably could also do that to do spacing between lines in a paragraph.

Some new capabilities here would be great.

Thanks - I do use that workaround between paragraphs, but it doesn't work between lines within a paragraph.

Make each line a separate paragraph.

Adding paragraph spacing would be very useful especially when you are using sequential numbering.  If you put in a new line for space it restarts the numbering?  

You're right Cath - manually inserting an extra paragraph in between numbered paragraphs will restart the numbering. Right now the text editing tools in Storyline don't support all the things you might be used to seeing in PowerPoint, but we're working on improving that. Stay tuned! In the meantime, we would love it if you could submit a feature request to our dev team to express what text-editing features you feel are important. Thanks!

I have the same issue; however, I'm trying to do this for a button.  To i have two lines of text (heading) in a button.  Branding purposes, they need to be on separate lines, but the spacing is just too large now b/w the two.  any other suggestions?

Hi Raymond! One way to manage that would be to do this:

1. Draw a button but don't enter any text on it.
2. Create some textboxes on top of your button and format them the way you like (in your case, you could create separate textboxes and adjust the spacing between so that they are tight).
3. Once they look the way you want, select the textboxes and do a Ctrl-X to cut them.
4. Select the button and click Edit States. Select the Normal state and add them to the button there. Then paste them into the other states as well.

I think this will give you the look you want, because the textboxes become part of each state and you aren't relying on the text-editing properties of the button itself. Just be aware, however, that this could end up being more work to manage, i.e., any time you need to edit the button text, you would need to open the states panel and edit it on each state individually, which could be kind of a pain.

Hope that at least gives you a possibility of a workaround though!   Here's an example of what it could look like, and I attached the file too in case you want to see how the states look.

Thanks Jeanette for the workaround!

You're right thought when it comes to updating all the states...could be a bit more manual....at least it's only 3 buttons that I have to change and only on one slide.  Good to know for future modules though.

Try pasting text in from word with custom spacing (i.e. 1.15).  Paste it into the slide, not inside of a text box that's already created.  It worked for me.  Then you can format paint it to other text boxes in the project.

@Justin, Thanks. I am frustrated that the smallest line spacing option has way too much leading. Unfortunately, if you try to reduce the line spacing smaller than the point size, the tops of the letters get cut off. But your trick still saved me a TON of time over making a separate frame for every single line.

I have a problem with numbered lines that do not align properly. 

http://screencast.com/t/sfwDY0eg4Q

When the numbered lines wrap around, the don't line up with the text immediately above.

Hi Steve! Are you copy/pasting from somewhere? There is a similar thread here that may be of some assistance to you.

Hi Steve,

I believe that uneven wrapping is still an issue that Articulate are working on... along with assorted text issues fixes for the next release. I've submitted a feature request, asking them to fix on the "misalignment" in bullet and numbering alignment. Perhaps you'll submit a request as well.

I hope everyone will submit feature requests for this and other text handling features. Not to rant but the ones I'm hoping that are addressed ASAP include line spacing (leading), custom paragraph spacing, adding tab functionality, proper bullet and numbering options, tables, fixing issues with some characters not working (e.g., em dashes — ), and hyphenation (though I'm not expecting this — PPT doens't have it either).

Thanks Brett and Becky

I like that Gerry.  Easy peasy...

Of course, upgrading to Storyline 2 is the best option now . . . ;)

Yes. My next step is to google "How to talk your manager into spending
part of the budget on tools to train staff"

Good luck with that! :)  Hope you succeed. 

It really is worth it to update.  After using SL2 for so long it was really hard lately to do a project for a client with SL1.    It was really difficult to go back . . .

Was the line spacing feature ever added to SL? I can't seem to find it. I'm trying to set the spacing between lines inside of a text box.

Hi Mike,

Do you mean the line spacing options here for paragraphs and such?

That's it exactly, not sure why I didn't see it before... The Slide Master menu was up and I clicked on the Format menu, but didn't check Home. Thank Ashely!

Oops, I think what I was actually looking for was "Paragraph spacing" but I found that too on the same menu. Thanks!